DigiLearn

Collaboration

Guest post – DigiLearn: Building relationships in an online setting

Author: Sarah Johnson – Lecturer in Midwifery Imagine the challenge of commencing a professional undergraduate degree online, the same day as the national lockdown; this was the case for the March 2020 midwifery learning community. Learners starting university in the pandemic, missed out on coffee and lunches together, general chit chat, getting to know each other, working together on assignments in the library, drinks at the Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 2 yearsJanuary 14, 2021 ago

Content Creation

Guest post – DigiLearn: Fed up of PowerPoint and Prezi? A new presentation tool; Canva

Author: Hannah Tizard – Lecturer in Midwifery As educators we are, more often than not, looking for new ways to engage and inspire the students we are teaching, and Canva is one of the best new spaces to do so! Canva is an amazing, powerful design tool made for non-designers. Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 2 yearsDecember 3, 2020 ago

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Guest post – DigiLearn: Is jumping straight in the best way to learn?

Author: John Hrycak – Student Coach, School of Psychology & Computer Science Most of us in education probably value the art of learning and have engaged with a combination of study and work … and returns to study … and more work. Working from home may have been a more abrupt and forced Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsNovember 26, 2020 ago

Collaboration

Guest post – DigiLearn: Using Wakelet to curate session resources

Author: Jill Dobson – Senior Lecturer in Acute Critical and Emergency Care As a course team, we wanted to maintain consistency for our students in the delivery of each session we delivered online. The course leader provided the structure for how each session could be delivered, but the way this Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsNovember 19, 2020 ago

Content Creation

Guest post – DigiLearn: Escape room challenges (creating opportunities to build community in a fun way)

Author: Maria D Iglesias Mora, Lecturer in Hispanic and Foundation Studies At the start of this academic year, with having to deliver many of the activities during Welcome Week online, educators had to reinvent themselves and to find new ways of creating team-building activities and virtual scavenger hunts for the Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsOctober 26, 2020 ago

Content Creation

Guest post – DigiLearn: Digital Communication: Beyond mono-cultural education with Microsoft Presentation Translator

Author: Andrew Grice, Lecturer in International Business Communications. I lecture on the BA (Hons) in International Business Communications at the University Central Lancashire. My education philosophy stems from a belief that as educators, we can construct learning environments that can both help and/or hinder student performance. Interest in technology-enabled teaching Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsOctober 21, 2020 ago

Guest post – DigiLearn: Using the Bookings app for online meetings

Author: Amy Edwards-Smith – Lecturer, School of Community Health and Midwifery I have found that with learning switching to being solely online, students are missing out on dropping into the office to chat, which is crucial to developing rapport and creating a supportive learning community. I wanted to make myself Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsOctober 16, 2020 ago

DigiLearn

Guest post – DigiLearn: Exploring gamification within nursing education

Author: Mike Smith – Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing I can remember all too well the sinking dread of being a student sat in a large lecture hall, watching a lecturer set up their 96 slides of mostly text for the 2-hour lecture I was about to be subjected to. Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsOctober 6, 2020 ago

Collaboration

Guest post – DigiLearn: Preparing for a virtual welcome week

Author: Vicky Mooney – Senior Lecturer / Course Leader Professional Policing Degree I am a Course Leader for the BSc in Professional Policing at UCLan. Admittedly, I am usually the last person to learn about the latest digital developments and technological advancements, however, the global COVID-19 pandemic has forced me and so Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsSeptember 7, 2020 ago

CPD

Guest post – DigiLearn: Be brave enough to try!

Author: Rachel Cunliffe – Lecturer in Forensic and Biological Anthropology Last year I changed my perception of what my teaching required quite dramatically. I used to think that my students needed to learn skeletal anatomy, and it was my job to help them develop that knowledge. However, my interactions with Read more…

By Caroline Carlin, 3 yearsAugust 26, 2020 ago